Rambling about old WIPs...
Jul. 6th, 2023 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_k_bravemanSomeone on EAD shared a tweet that said
which started a small discussion about the topic and prompted me to look through some of my old writing projects. Most of them didn't go farther than about a page on google docs, maybe two if I was feeling particularly inspired. A lot of them are from around 2018-2019, mostly because that's when I realized writing the stories I fantasize about to fall asleep actually helped the sleep, 'cause I had a clear plotline to follow instead of going in circles. Also, the writing from before that is on an external drive and I just wrote in Word, but I haven't really looked at those in a while; unfortunately, I am not yet immune to cringing at my younger self. Anyway, I digress.
I don't feel too sad about the projects themselves, but reading them I can somewhat recall the feeling of writing them. When I read them I get this sort of airy feeling, as if I'm floating back to the time I wrote them and I wasn't with uni and other such things. And to be clear, I love being out of my hellhole of a high school and being away from my home country, but writing just felt different because I had different priorities. Namely, I just wanted to out some iddy thoughts down and get it over with. Now, I actually want to imbue my stories with more meaning and I can't stop myself from giving it meaning. I'm way more on the left than I was years ago, and I am way more critical/analytical of stories from that perspective, which I can't just turn off at will. I don't think this is a bad thing—nor is it always good—but I wish I could go back to just slapping on some iddy shit on the page and being done with it. Well, I can do it for someone else, as I've learned doing exchanges, but I can't do it for myself, which is annoying.
Anyway, I do kind of want to rewrite some of them some day, give my numerous original blorbos a proper story and ending. I don't really have time for that right now though, and I'm not sure when I will. u_u Such is life in uni, I suppose...
in the knitting community there is a distinction between wips (something you're actively working on) and ufos (unfinished objects, something is unfinished but in hibernation), and i think fic writers should adopt this distinction as well
which started a small discussion about the topic and prompted me to look through some of my old writing projects. Most of them didn't go farther than about a page on google docs, maybe two if I was feeling particularly inspired. A lot of them are from around 2018-2019, mostly because that's when I realized writing the stories I fantasize about to fall asleep actually helped the sleep, 'cause I had a clear plotline to follow instead of going in circles. Also, the writing from before that is on an external drive and I just wrote in Word, but I haven't really looked at those in a while; unfortunately, I am not yet immune to cringing at my younger self. Anyway, I digress.
I don't feel too sad about the projects themselves, but reading them I can somewhat recall the feeling of writing them. When I read them I get this sort of airy feeling, as if I'm floating back to the time I wrote them and I wasn't with uni and other such things. And to be clear, I love being out of my hellhole of a high school and being away from my home country, but writing just felt different because I had different priorities. Namely, I just wanted to out some iddy thoughts down and get it over with. Now, I actually want to imbue my stories with more meaning and I can't stop myself from giving it meaning. I'm way more on the left than I was years ago, and I am way more critical/analytical of stories from that perspective, which I can't just turn off at will. I don't think this is a bad thing—nor is it always good—but I wish I could go back to just slapping on some iddy shit on the page and being done with it. Well, I can do it for someone else, as I've learned doing exchanges, but I can't do it for myself, which is annoying.
Anyway, I do kind of want to rewrite some of them some day, give my numerous original blorbos a proper story and ending. I don't really have time for that right now though, and I'm not sure when I will. u_u Such is life in uni, I suppose...
